This paper provides a critical examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in all or most activities is … hypotheses about the geography of innovation. Moreover, examination of new survey evidence from a large number of firms in the … innovation is very much more limited than has been suggested, as are the supposed advantages of firm smallness …

In this paper, we investigate innovation factors and their role in regional economic performance for a sample of 261 EU … innovation factors on economic performance. The spatial analysis indicates that both regional in- novativeness and regional … Europe. We assessed the impact of innovation factors and their spatial counterparts on economic performance using a spatial …

Contents: 1. Introduction: Diversity, innovation and clusters - spatial perspectives / Irene Bernhard, Urban Gråsjö and … Urban Gråsjö -- 4. Inclusive place innovation as a means for local community regeneration / Irene Bernhard, Anna Karin … industrial PhD students and perceptions of their impact on firm innovation / Karin Berg and Maureen McKelvey -- 8. Globalizing …